Re: GNU Parted vs. fips

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 02:58:02PM -0400, Clyde Boom wrote:
> Does parted automatically move a Wnidows swap file if necessary.

It treats it as any other file.  We haven't found any evidence this
is Bad.

> I do not understand why the RHL manuals and other documentation (and 
> other books) suggest using fips rather than parted.

Me neither.  FIPS is horrible.  Further, the red hat installation process
uses Parted to handle partitioning.  The FAT resizer in Parted is pretty
solid... while there have been bugs, it has been *AGES* since there
was one that caused corruption.

msw: does anaconda allow you to resize partitions?

> Is fips more reliable than parted or has the parted utility been overlooked?

I don't think fips has any advantages over parted.

> Does parted work over the long term or are there problems when the 
> Windows partition becomes full?

Parted needs a bit of free space.

> fips and parted do not currently work on partitions that have the 
> filesystem type of NTFS.

Right.

> Could you please give me an idea as to when parted will work on NTFS 
> partitions.

I don't know.  I'm not working on it, but other people are.
(The linux-ntfs people)

Cheers,
Andrew